empowerment & inner transformation…
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[...] Proud of the results but not of the action. Everyone but I must look back on my behavior. They can only see my acts coupled with their results. But I must act now without knowing the results. Thus I give my actions their own possible meaning to me. And true meaning always issues from:... Continue Reading →
“One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world.” - Proverb quotes (Downloaded from Thinkexist)
2 Excerpts from SGI President Ikeda's essay from the "On Brilliant Path to Victory" series published in the July 1 edition of the Seikyo Shimbun. *** The antiwar activist Rosa Luxemburg was also imprisoned for her ideals. She wrote, "I haven't been soft up to now, but now I am as hard as tempered steel."... Continue Reading →
"For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual." - Irving Babbitt "I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet." - Isabel Allende "Imagine all the people living life in... Continue Reading →
"Whenever we think of children, the first thing that comes to our mind is innocence and naivety. A child is the purest form of a human being as he is not yet moulded by the harsh realities of life. All his activities bring forth his true feelings and he is not bothered about what people... Continue Reading →
"When we draw strength from within, our outlook undergoes a dramatic transformation; everything around us looks completely different. To be strong--that is the key to happiness." - Daisaku Ikeda *** "Great art is created only through diligent and painstaking effort to perfect and polish oneself." - Daisaku Ikeda *** (These two quotes are dedicated to... Continue Reading →
“Happy are they who don't doubt themselves and whose pens fly across the page. I myself hesitate, I falter, I become angry and fearful, my drive diminishes as my taste improves, and I brood more over an ill-suited word than I rejoice over a well-proportioned paragraph.” - Gustave Flaubert *** “Reality does not conform to... Continue Reading →
"Emotions reflect intentions. Therefore, awareness of emotions leads to awareness of intentions. Every discrepancy between a conscious intention and the emotions that accompany it, points directly to a splintered aspect of the self that requires healing." - Gary Zukav
"Helping people to experience themselves as living bodies on a living earth . . . is necessary in achieving any solution to the problems we all face . . . Only with the bodily experience of power and compassion will people have the courage and the desire and the ability to undertake what must be... Continue Reading →
"We judge and rank ourselves, our friends, our coworkers, and our neighbors both near and far. We judge plants, animals, minerals, and everything else in nature. Without a second thought, we assign value to traits, deciding that some characteristics are more valuable or desirable than others. We are skilled at quickly viewing one option as... Continue Reading →
"My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly." - Carlos Santana
empowerment & inner transformation... 